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D12486 boar tusk ornament

The boar tusk is brown-white and long, crescent-shaped. A hole has been drilled through the end that is not pointed. Perpendicular striations are running along the tusk.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
boar tusk ornament
Dimensions
General: 0.5 × 9.7 × 4 cm
Material/Technique
Boar's tooth | carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12486

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913 (?)
    where
    Papua New Guinea (?)
  • Change of physical control
    who
    Ludwig Cohn (1873 - 1935)

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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